Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
ERICA JONGCreativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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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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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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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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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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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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