I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
ERICA JONGPerhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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.
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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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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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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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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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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.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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