We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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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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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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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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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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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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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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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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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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