Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
ERICA JONGAs long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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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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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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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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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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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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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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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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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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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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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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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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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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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