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Erica Jong — Portrait after a picture by Wes Washington (CC BY-SA 3.0), via Wikimedia Commons. This drawing is shared under the same licence.

The quotations of

Erica Jong

American novelist, poet, memoirist, critic

born 1942

9 quotes.

Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities.
If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)
- Risk
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.
- Fear
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
Everyone has talent; what is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartedness that requires the true courage⁠—however often we are hurt as a result of it.
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
- Courage
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
“Blood and Guts: The Tricky Problem of Being a Woman Writer in the Late Twentieth Century”
- Wisdom
Without sex it would be so easy to choose appropriate people to live with. Sex was the joker in an otherwise rational deck.
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
- Sex
It’s only when you’re forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.
Fear of Flying (1973)
- Time

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