The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
ERICA JONGCreativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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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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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.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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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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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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