We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
ERICA JONGLife is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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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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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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