If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
ERICA JONGHumor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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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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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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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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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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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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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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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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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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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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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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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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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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