I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
ERICA JONGIf you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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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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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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