You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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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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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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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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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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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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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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