I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
ERICA JONGOf all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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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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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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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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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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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If 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.
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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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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
ERICA JONG