I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
ERICA JONGIn loving life you love what can’t survive.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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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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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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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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