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More Quotes by Erica Jong
As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.
A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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.
Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
Because I loved myself, I was loved.
Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.
The soul is awakened through service.
Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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.
