And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
ERICA JONGYoung people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Solitude is un-American.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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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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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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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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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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