No 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.
ERICA JONGHome is where your books are.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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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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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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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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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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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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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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