Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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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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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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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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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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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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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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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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