To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
ERICA JONGTo name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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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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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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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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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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