Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
ERICA JONGI look forward and see myself look back.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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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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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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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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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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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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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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