I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
ERICA JONGA new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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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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Why does life need evidence of life?
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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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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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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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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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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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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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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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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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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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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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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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