Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
ERICA JONGI 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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