Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
ERICA JONGThough my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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It 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.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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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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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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