There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
ERICA JONGAnd the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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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 book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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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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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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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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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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