Erica Jong on courage

Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities.

If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.

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.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Aristotle384–322 BC

Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare1564–1616Julius Caesar (1599), Act II, scene ii.In context

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.