The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
ERICA JONGI have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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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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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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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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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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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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