The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
ERICA JONGThough my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Solitude is un-American.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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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.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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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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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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