I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
ERICA JONGI have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
ERICA JONGIn 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.
ERICA JONGWomen are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
ERICA JONGI look forward and see myself look back.
ERICA JONGHow 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.
ERICA JONGA new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
ERICA JONGThe soul is awakened through service.
ERICA JONGYou cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
ERICA JONGImages are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
ERICA JONGSomeday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
ERICA JONGI vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
ERICA JONGIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
ERICA JONGHome is where your books are.
ERICA JONGThe trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
ERICA JONGEveryone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
ERICA JONGLoving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
ERICA JONG