Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
ERICA JONGYou are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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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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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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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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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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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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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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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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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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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.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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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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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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