How could one create life with someone who represented death?
ERICA JONGIf, 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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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.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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