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

~Erica Jong

Topics: Anything Even More Risk Trouble You

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

~Erica Jong

Topics: Anything Even More Risk Trouble You

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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

~Erica Jong

Topics: Been Exploited Group History Only Powerlessness Women Women Are

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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.

~Erica Jong

Topics: Men Men And Women Never Will Women Women And Men Work

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Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.

~Erica Jong

Topics: American Between Brain Chiefly Ears God Hollywood Lately Located Part Where

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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.

~Erica Jong

Topics: Alas Also Being Cover Ever Fool Fools Found Human Human Race Public Race Rest Tracks While Wisdom Without Writers

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

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Topics: Artists Earth Household Housewives Perhaps Sense Were

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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.

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Topics: Fact Friends In Fact Love Lucky Misery Only Our Pretty Sometimes Successful The Only Thing Thing Too Us

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When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.

~Erica Jong

Topics: Amaze Authors Could Dust Icons Jacket Kiss Love Me Old People Pictures Provoke Remote To Love Used Were

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I remember everything but forgive anyway.

~Erica Jong

Topics: Anyway Everything Forgive Remember I Remember

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: March 26th, 1942

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