I 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 JONGI have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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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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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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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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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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