Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
ERICA JONGMemory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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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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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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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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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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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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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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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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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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