Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
ERICA JONGIf we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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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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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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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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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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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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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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