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.
ERICA JONGIs perception equivalent to existence?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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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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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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