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And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Erica Jong
Love, Inspirational, Life
"Fear of Flying". Book by Erica Jong, 1973.

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. 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 Jong
Love, Inspirational, Life
"Fear of Flying". Book by Erica Jong, 1973.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Erica Jong
Love, Witty, Women

Love is everything it's cracked up to be

Erica Jong
Love, Love Is, Cracked
Erica Jong (2007). “Inventing Memory: A Novel of Mothers and Daughters”, p.90, Penguin

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

Erica Jong
Love, Relationship, Marriage
erica jong (1977). “how to save your own life”

The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel

Erica Jong
Love, Pain, Joy
erica jong (1977). “how to save your own life”

Love is serene and calm

Erica Jong
Love, Advice, Calm
Erica Jong (2013). “Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected”, p.20, Open Road Media

Hate generalizes; love is particular.

Erica Jong
Love, Life, Hate
Erica Jong (1991). “Becoming light: poems, new and selected”, HarperCollins Publishers

I can live without it all - love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their peacock strutting, their silly sexual baggage, their wet tongues in my ear.

Erica Jong
Love, Sex, Silly
Erica Jong (2013). “Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected”, p.238, Open Road Media

Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!

Erica Jong
Love, Song, Good Life
Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.27, Open Road Media

When you start having lunch and actually eating, it's already over.

Erica Jong
Love, Lunch, Eating

Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

Erica Jong
Love, Beauty, Apology
1977 How To SaveYour Own Life.

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