We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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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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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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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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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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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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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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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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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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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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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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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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