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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
Erica Jong
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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society, we will soon have no art, no culture, no humor, no satire. Satire is by its nature offensive. So is much art and political discourse. The value of these expressions far outweighs their risk.
Erica Jong
In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.
Erica Jong
This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
Erica Jong
As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.
Erica Jong
The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
Erica Jong
If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
Erica Jong
How could one create life with someone who represented death?
Erica Jong
The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
Erica Jong
The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to the movement... and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world.
Erica Jong
When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.
Erica Jong
Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
Erica Jong
When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.
Erica Jong
Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
Erica Jong
When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.
Erica Jong
I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.
Erica Jong
I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
Erica Jong
The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
Erica Jong
What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
Erica Jong
I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
Erica Jong
Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?
Erica Jong