Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
ERICA JONGI vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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Solitude is un-American.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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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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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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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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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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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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