More Quotes by Erica Jong
The soul is awakened through service.
Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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.
The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.
