There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
ERICA JONGI have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
More Erica Jong Quotes
-
-
Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
ERICA JONG -
Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
ERICA JONG -
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
ERICA JONG -
You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
ERICA JONG -
We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
ERICA JONG -
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
ERICA JONG -
A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
ERICA JONG -
Because I loved myself, I was loved.
ERICA JONG -
Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
ERICA JONG -
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.
ERICA JONG -
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 -
The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
ERICA JONG -
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.
ERICA JONG -
I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
ERICA JONG -
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