Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
ERICA JONGIf we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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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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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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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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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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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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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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