A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
ERICA JONGThe sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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If 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.
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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