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> [You reach a point in life where you realize that you might as well do what you need to do, because your being loved or not being loved is really a function of the people you encounter and not of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/you-reach-a-point-in-life-where-you-realize-that-you-might-as-well-do/)

[Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/589/erica-jong-445_being-loved_you-reach-a-point-in-life-where-you-real_1123888.jpg)

> [Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/love-is-everything-it-s-cracked-up-to-be-it-really-is-worth-fighting/)

[Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/669/erica-jong-445_away-from-love_love-is-everything-it-s-cracked-up-to-be_3009538.jpg)

## More by Erica Jong

> [“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/it-took-me-years-to-learn-to-sit-at-my-desk-for-more-than-two-minutes/)

[Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/)

> [Will you ever? I dont think you will ever fully understand how you've touched my life and made me who I am.I don't think…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/will-you-ever-i-dont-think-you-will-ever-fully-understand-how-you-ve/)

[Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/)

> [Give advice to your children while they're young enough to believe you know what you're talking about.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/give-advice-to-your-children-while-they-re-young-enough-to-believe/)

[Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/)

> [Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/perhaps-all-artists-were-in-a-sense-housewives-tenders-of-the-earth/)

[Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/)

> [I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/i-have-lived-my-life-according-to-this-principle-if-i-m-afraid-of-it/)

[Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/)

> [I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/i-thought-to-spend-my-declining-years-writing-poetry-and-teaching-but/)

[Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/)

> [“Naomi Wolf dares to explode the myth of 'victim feminism' and pleads for allowing women to be as full of good and bad desires…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/naomi-wolf-dares-to-explode-the-myth-of-victim-feminism-and-pleads/)

[Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/)

> [I knew I was in England by the smell.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/i-knew-i-was-in-england-by-the-smell/)

[Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/)

> [The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/the-lives-of-great-men-are-more-oft-at-variance-with-their-profess-d/)

[Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/)

> [Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/women-s-books-are-kind-of-discriminated-against-if-a-man-writes-a/)

[Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/)

> [Many, many people have done a lot more sexual experimentation than I have.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/many-many-people-have-done-a-lot-more-sexual-experimentation-than-i/)

[Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/)

> [“Is life much too long for an immortal?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/is-life-much-too-long-for-an-immortal/)

[Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/)

> [Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/don-t-ye-know-that-ev-ry-soul-on-earth-feels-itself-to-be-an-orphan/)

[Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/)

> [Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/critics-write-out-of-intellectual-exercise-not-poets-poets-write/)

[Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/)

> [Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/once-i-worshipped-keats-for-dying-young-now-i-think-it-s-braver-to/)

[Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/)

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