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Erica Jong Quotes - Page 2

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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.

The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.

Risk, Doe, Dilemma

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Inspirational, Dance, Tunes

FaceBook post by Erica Jong from May 06, 2015

The soul is awakened through service.

Life, Spiritual, Soul

Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.283, Penguin

We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.

Cynical, Morality, Monogamy

Erica Jong (2007). “What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong”, p.110, Penguin

And what if I don't want forgiveness?

What If, Want, Ifs

Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade

Love is love, but marriage is an investment.

Love Is, Investment

Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade

Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.

Funny, Country, America

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.

War, Men, Two

Betrayal betrays the betrayer.

Betrayal, Betrayed, Betray

What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?

Way, Spending

Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade

There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.

Loneliness

Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade

Home is where your books are.

Book, Home

Erica Jong (2007). “What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong”, p.165, Penguin

I don't think you will ever fully understand how you've touched my life and made me who I am. 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

Stars, Night, Thinking

Anger is really disappointed hope.

Inspirational, Anger, Disappointed

Erica Jong (1985). “Parachutes & kisses”, Signet

I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.

Laughter, Enough, Revelations

Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.17, Penguin

Conflict is the soul of literature.

Soul, Literature, Conflict

Erica Jong (2007). “What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong”, p.48, Penguin

We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.

Fear, Procrastination, Looks

FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Nov 17, 2014

Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Love, Relationship, Marriage

erica jong (1977). “how to save your own life”

I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.

Fear, Fear And Courage, Fearful

FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Feb 09, 2012

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

Inspirational, Jealousy, Fun

1977 HowTo SaveYour Own Life.

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.

Book, Writing, Men

Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.

War, Believe, Men

Erica Jong (2007). “Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life”, p.76, Penguin

Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.

America, Outcomes, Matter

Erica Jong (2007). “Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life”, p.9, Penguin

Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.

Believe, Elements, Unhappiness

Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade

If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.

Writing, Listening, Important

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