I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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 we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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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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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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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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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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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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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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