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title: "36 Ifs Quotes By Erica Jong"
description: "36 Ifs quotes by Erica Jong. Plus more from Erica Jong and more Ifs sayings from other authors."
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> [I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/i-am-not-sure-if-love-is-a-salve-or-just-a-deeper-kind-of-wound/)

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

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> [And what if I don't want forgiveness?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/and-what-if-i-don-t-want-forgiveness/)

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

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> [You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/you-should-write-first-drafts-as-if-they-will-never-be-shown-to-anyone/)

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

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> [we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/we-write-as-if-our-lives-depended-upon-it-they-do/)

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

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> [The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/the-dilemma-is-that-if-one-does-not-risk-anything-one-risks-even-more/)

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

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> [If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/if-we-don-t-risk-anything-we-risk-even-more/)

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

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> [If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/if-we-can-be-sufficient-unto-ourselves-we-need-fear-no-entangling-webs/)

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

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> [If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/if-we-are-all-made-of-god-it-is-our-friends-who-remind-us-we-pass-the/)

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

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> [If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/if-you-ve-been-a-pretty-woman-and-always-pursued-by-lovers-losing/)

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

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> [If you apologize for something that isn't your fault in the first place, you, in effect, confirm their belief that it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/if-you-apologize-for-something-that-isn-t-your-fault-in-the-first/)

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

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> [Whenever I go anywhere but Italy for a vacation, I always feel vaguely disappointed, as if I have made a mistake.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/whenever-i-go-anywhere-but-italy-for-a-vacation-i-always-feel-vaguely/)

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

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> [Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/blocks-usually-stem-from-fear-of-being-judged-if-you-imagine-the/)

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

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> [A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/a-concern-with-public-morality-is-if-not-the-last-refuge-of-a/)

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

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> [Sex is God's joke on the human race ... if we didn't have sex to make us ridiculous, She would have had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/sex-is-god-s-joke-on-the-human-race-if-we-didn-t-have-sex-to-make-us/)

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

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> [Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/harriet-van-horne-he-makes-love-to-me-expertly-mechanically-coldly-he/)

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

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> [If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/if-every-day-i-dare-to-remember-that-i-am-here-on-loan-that-this/)

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

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> [If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/if-you-don-t-have-time-to-do-it-right-you-must-have-time-to-do-it/)

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

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> [I think a lot of people, when they read about a woman who acknowledges her sexuality and her feelings, get really scared.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/i-think-a-lot-of-people-when-they-read-about-a-woman-who-acknowledges/)

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

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> [Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/writing-is-one-of-the-few-professions-left-where-you-take-all-the/)

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

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> [What makes a Man love Death, Fanny? Is it because he hopes to avert his own by watchin' the Deaths of others?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/what-makes-a-man-love-death-fanny-is-it-because-he-hopes-to-avert-his/)

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

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> [As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid - as if we'd disabled them utterly. Do all women…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/as-women-got-little-crumbs-of-power-men-began-to-act-paranoid-as-if/)

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

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> [My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher."…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/my-advice-to-you-is-get-married-if-you-find-a-good-wife-you-ll-be/)

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

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> [Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/not-everybody-has-to-be-a-parent-in-fact-in-an-overpopulated-world/)

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

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> [There is this tendency to think that if you could only find the magic way, then you could become a poet. "Tell…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/there-is-this-tendency-to-think-that-if-you-could-only-find-the-magic/)

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

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> [I understand that unless you have a government of laws, rather than a government of people, you cannot protect dissent. And I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/i-understand-that-unless-you-have-a-government-of-laws-rather-than-a/)

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

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> [Beware of books. They are more than innocent assemblages of paper and ink and string and glue. If they are any good,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/beware-of-books-they-are-more-than-innocent-assemblages-of-paper-and/)

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

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> [The absolute bedrock of our independence is having control over our own bodies. You cannot be independent if the government or someone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/the-absolute-bedrock-of-our-independence-is-having-control-over-our/)

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

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> [The sexuality doesn't end. It really doesn't. You're sexual your whole life, if you're a sexual person.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/the-sexuality-doesn-t-end-it-really-doesn-t-you-re-sexual-your-whole/)

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

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> [If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/if-there-s-anything-the-world-disdains-more-than-uppity-young-women/)

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

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> [People are terrified. A lot of them are in relationships that aren't satisfying, and if you tell them they can change their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/people-are-terrified-a-lot-of-them-are-in-relationships-that-aren-t/)

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

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> [Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/mediocre-prose-might-be-read-as-an-escape-might-be-spoken-on/)

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

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> [If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/if-sex-and-creativity-are-often-seen-by-dictators-as-subversive/)

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

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> [If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/if-you-imagine-the-world-listening-you-ll-never-write-a-line-that-s/)

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

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> [If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society, we will soon have no art, no culture, no humor, no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/if-we-ban-whatever-offends-any-group-in-our-diverse-society-we-will/)

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

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> [Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth) I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/every-time-we-hit-an-air-pocket-and-the-plane-dropped-about-five/)

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

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> [Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss. A new dog…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/dogs-come-into-our-lives-to-teach-us-about-love-and-loyalty-they/)

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

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## Other authors on Ifs

## 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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                        "text": "Beware of books. They are more than innocent assemblages of paper and ink and string and glue. If they are any good, they have the spirit of the author within. Authors are rogues and ruffians and easy lays. They are gluttons for sweets and savories. They devour life and always want more. They have sap, spirit, sex. Books are panderers. The Jews are not wrong to worship books. A real book has pheromones and sprouts grass through its cover.",
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