Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
ERICA JONGAmbivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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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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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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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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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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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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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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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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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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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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