Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
ERICA JONGNo one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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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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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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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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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.
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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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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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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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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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