If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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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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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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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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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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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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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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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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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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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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