More Quotes by Erica Jong
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.
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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.
I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
Conflict is the soul of literature.
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
