Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
ERICA JONGThere’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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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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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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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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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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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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Why does life need evidence of life?
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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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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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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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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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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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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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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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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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