I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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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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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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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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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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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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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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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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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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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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