Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
ERICA JONGEveryone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Home is where your books are.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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