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

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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Anything
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The absolute bedrock of our independence is having control over our own bodies. You cannot be independent if the government or someone else says whether or not you can use birth control. Unless you're in charge of your body, you're not in charge of anything. I think that's really the bottom line of feminism.
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I am never so calm as after I have written. And the next morning I will feel the familiar anxiety and I will have to begin the process all over again.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?
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That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.
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perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.
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Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.
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Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper.
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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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A Soul is partly given, partly wrought remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.
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Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.
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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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Solitude is un-American.
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If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.
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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. 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.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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