Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
ERICA JONGIt is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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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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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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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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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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