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And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. - Erica Mann Jong


Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads. - Erica Mann Jong


Singularity shows something wrong in the mind. - Erica Mann Jong


Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man. - Erica Mann Jong


I you don't risk anything you risk even more. - Erica Mann Jong


I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am. - Erica Mann Jong


Beware of the man who denounces women writers; his appendage is tiny and he cannot spell. - Erica Mann Jong


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 Mann Jong


Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy. - Erica Mann Jong


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 Mann Jong


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. - Erica Mann Jong


If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all. - Erica Mann Jong


My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first 10 minutes I want to go home and screw. After the first 20 minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live. - Erica Mann Jong


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


Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all. - Erica Mann 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. - Erica Mann Jong


Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood. - Erica Mann Jong


I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as part of life specifically fear of change and fear of the unknown; and I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says, turn back, turn back, you'll die if you venture too far. - Erica Mann Jong


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 Mann Jong


A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive. - Erica Mann Jong