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.
ERICA JONGTake your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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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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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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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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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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If 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.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Home is where your books are.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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