Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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 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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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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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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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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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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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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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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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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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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