More Quotes by Erica Jong
Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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.
A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
Home is where your books are.
I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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.
We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
Conflict is the soul of literature.
There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.
