Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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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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Home is where your books are.
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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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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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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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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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