It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
ERICA JONGHow could one create life with someone who represented death?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Home is where your books are.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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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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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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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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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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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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