Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
ERICA JONGMany people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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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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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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Solitude is un-American.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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