More Quotes by Erica Jong
I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
Home is where your books are.
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.
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.
Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss. A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
I don't think you will ever fully understand how you've touched my life and made me who I am. I don't think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
