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, the fear of the unknown and I have gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says turn back, turn back, you’ll die if you venture too far.
Erica Jong
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Erica Jong
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
Erica Jong
If you don’t risk anything you risk even more.
Erica Jong
I know some good marriages — marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.
Erica Jong
True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
Erica Jong
Advice is what you ask for when you already know the answer but wish you didn’t.
Erica Jong
Friends LOVE misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too luck or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
Erica Jong
Take your life in your own hands and what happens A terrible thing no one to blame.
Erica Jong
Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.
Erica Jong