I look forward and see myself look back.
ERICA JONGI 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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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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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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