Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
ERICA JONGDon’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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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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Solitude is un-American.
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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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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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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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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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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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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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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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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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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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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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