Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
ERICA JONGAs women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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