It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
ERICA JONGA book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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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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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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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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