More Quotes by 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.
Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss. A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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.
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
I don't think you will ever fully understand how you've touched my life and made me who I am. I don't think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
