Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
ERICA JONGI look forward and see myself look back.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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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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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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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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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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