I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
ERICA JONGLoving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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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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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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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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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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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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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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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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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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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.
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