I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
ERICA JONGI have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
ERICA JONGThe truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
ERICA JONGReally true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
ERICA JONGIf 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.
ERICA JONGI want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
ERICA JONGAllow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
ERICA JONGEveryone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
ERICA JONGJealousy is all the fun you think they had.
ERICA JONGIn a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
ERICA JONGOur empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
ERICA JONGThere’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
ERICA JONGBreast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
ERICA JONGPerhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
ERICA JONGArt is always an energy exchange.
ERICA JONGA poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
ERICA JONGFame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
ERICA JONG