The soul is awakened through service.
ERICA JONGThe soul is awakened through service.
ERICA JONGWomen are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
ERICA JONGFear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
ERICA JONGI don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
ERICA JONGIs a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
ERICA JONGI don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
ERICA JONGKeeping a journal implies hope.
ERICA JONGLoving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
ERICA JONGI am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
ERICA JONGCourage is the only Magic worth having.
ERICA JONGEvery time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
ERICA JONGIf we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
ERICA JONGHome is where your books are.
ERICA JONGI 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.
ERICA JONGIf, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
ERICA JONGPeople are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
ERICA JONG