Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
ERICA JONGI don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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 myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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If, 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.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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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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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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Many 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.
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