You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
ERICA JONGYoung people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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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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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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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Solitude is un-American.
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