It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
ERICA JONGAs long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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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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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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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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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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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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