You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
ERICA JONGIt 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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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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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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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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I look forward and see myself look back.
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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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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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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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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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