I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
ERICA JONGLove is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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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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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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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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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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