To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
ERICA JONGFear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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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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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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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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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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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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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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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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Why does life need evidence of life?
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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