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.
ERICA JONGYou 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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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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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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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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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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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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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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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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