It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
ERICA JONGLoving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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Solitude is un-American.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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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.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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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 as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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