Erica Jong
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"Erica Jong" is an American author and teacher best known for her fiction and poetry, and particularly for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying (novel)/Fear of Flying. The book became famously controversial for its attitudes towards female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism. According to Washington Post, it has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide.

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If you don't risk anything you risk even more.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

Love is everything it's cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Men and women, women and men. It will never work.

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.

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything its cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it...it really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everthing for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

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.

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

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

Will you ever? 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.

Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.