The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
ERICA JONGThe sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
ERICA JONGIs a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
ERICA JONGI look forward and see myself look back.
ERICA JONGOf all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
ERICA JONGAnd the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
ERICA JONGCourage is the only Magic worth having.
ERICA JONGI vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
ERICA JONGIf 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 JONGPeople always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
ERICA JONGWhat I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
ERICA JONGA new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
ERICA JONGEvery time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
ERICA JONGAlways do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
ERICA JONGCreativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
ERICA JONGWhy does life need evidence of life?
ERICA JONGBetrayal betrays the betrayer.
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