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.
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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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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Solitude is un-American.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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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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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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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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