I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
ERICA JONGPhotographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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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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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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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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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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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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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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