You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
ERICA JONGPeople always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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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 do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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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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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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