A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
ERICA JONGJealousy is all the fun you think they had.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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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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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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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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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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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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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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