Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
ERICA JONGFear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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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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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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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 not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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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