Erica Jong: Quotes about life

“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”

“I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back….”

“It was easy enough to kill yourself in a fit of despair. It was easy enough to play the martyr. It was harder to do nothing. To endure your life. To wait.”

“Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.”

“I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.”

“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.”

“A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.”

“Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it…”

“Never follow a dog act. You know you're on the skids when you play yourself in the movie version of your life.”

“Why does life need evidence of life?”

“How could one create life with someone who represented death?”

“In loving life you love what can't survive…”

“Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.”

“What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to deceive?”

“I'm just trying to lead my own fucking life if I can manage to find it in all this confusion.”