Courage is the only Magic worth having.
ERICA JONGDo you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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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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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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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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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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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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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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