As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
ERICA JONGLove is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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The soul is awakened through service.
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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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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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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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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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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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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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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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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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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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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 words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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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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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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