Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
ERICA JONGThe best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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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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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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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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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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