Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
ERICA JONGAmbivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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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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Solitude is un-American.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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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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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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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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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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