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More Quotes by Erica Jong
Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.
Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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. 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.
The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more
What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation. Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved...Freedom is...not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
