As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
ERICA JONGIf 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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Home is where your books are.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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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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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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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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