The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
ERICA JONGHow could one create life with someone who represented death?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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