Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
ERICA JONGA book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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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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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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I 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.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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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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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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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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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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