It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
ERICA JONGEvery time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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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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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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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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