Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
ERICA JONGArt is always an energy exchange.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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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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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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