I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
ERICA JONGSilence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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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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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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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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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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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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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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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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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