My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
ERICA JONGYou can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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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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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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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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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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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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