Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
ERICA JONGIt takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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