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Erica Jong Quotes

Total quotes: 7
“I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.”
— Erica Jong, What Do Women Want?
Tagged: Fear, Fear of Change
“...the courage
to love
like a wound

that never
heals.”
— Erica Jong, Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected
Tagged: Love, Loving Deeply, loving unconditionally, romance, poem, Poetry
“There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I’d been treated by at least six of them.”
— Erica Jong, Fear of Flying
Tagged: first lines of books
“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.”
— Erica Jong, Fear of Flying
Tagged: Philosophy, Love
“At times I hardly can believe in you. 
Except this ache, 
this longing in my gut, 
this emptiness which theorizes you 
because if there is emptiness this deep,there must be fullness somewhere.”
— Erica Jong, Half-Lives
Tagged: Sadness, Pain, Emptiness, Suffering
“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.”
— Erica Jong, Fear of Flying
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Fighting For Love, Taking Risks, Leap of Faith, Falling In Love
“All writing problems are psychological problems. Blocks usually stem from the fear of being judged. If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.”
— Erica Jong, The New Writer's Handbook 2007: A Practical Anthology of Best Advice for Your Craft and Career
Tagged: Creative, Writer's Block, Writing
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