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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.

Erica Jong

The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
ERICA JONG

End Life Person Sexual Sexuality
Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
ERICA JONG

Keep Legless Men Silent Speak Walk Women
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
ERICA JONG

Crack Cynical Everything Love People Something Subsesive Tell Want
And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
ERICA JONG

Forgiveness If Want What
Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
ERICA JONG

Find Going Later Life Often Own Poem Predict Write
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 JONG

Accept Ahead Back Change Despite Fear Heart Part Pound Say Specially Turn
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
ERICA JONG

Advice Already Answer Ask Know Wish
Keeping a journal implies hope.
ERICA JONG

Hope Implies Journal Keep
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
ERICA JONG

Dumb Guy Hardly Lot See Smart Women
Art is always an energy exchange.
ERICA JONG

Always Art Energy exchange
Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
ERICA JONG

Back Come Daughter Different Freedom Insist Leash License Loose Mother Need Reject Share She
I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
ERICA JONG

Being Cease Control Fear Fearful Let Me
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.
ERICA JONG

Anyone Draft First Imagine Important Line Listen never Privacy Shown World Write
Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
ERICA JONG

Emotional Image Kind Shorthand
Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
ERICA JONG

Anything Currency One Remember Show Use Wants Worth
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 JONG

Brave Even Everything Fight More Really Risk Trouble Worth

Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.

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