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Erica Jong

"I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back."

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"I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"When this world is full of fashion, be unique by reflecting your own style."

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"Life is a wave of love in the ocean of time."

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"Every idea travels to somewhere but some ideas travel to everywhere, the great ideas!"

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"How magical can a person be when she is blessed with infinite kindness?"

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"A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life."

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"If the universe is movement, it will not be in one direction only. We think of our lives as linear but it is the spin of the earth that allows us to observe time. Walk with me."

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"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."

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"And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."
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"You're afraid of criticism,' she says. 'But criticism is a sign of life! You know who doesn't get criticized? Nonentities! Only the dead escape criticism."
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"Fame turns out to be a powerful instrument of grace because it humbles its chosen victims in a hurry. You sail into it, your canvas swelled with grandiosity, and when your fifteen minutes are over and you are becalmed, you realize that grandiosity cannot take you where you need to go.Only then do you learn to row like hell, asking God for the strength to stay afloat."
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"I had forgotten how awful it was to be a woman alone--the leering glances, the catcalls, the offers of help which you dared not accept for fear of incurring a sexual debt. The awful sense of vulnerability. No wonder I had gone from man to man and always wound up married. How could I have left Bennett? How could I have forgotten?"
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"Husband and wife have no time left to spend together. Marriage took away our one reason for getting married."
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"Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart."
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"In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving - instead of actually getting up and leaving."
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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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"There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes."
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"Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same."
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