Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
ERICA JONGFear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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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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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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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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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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