Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
ERICA JONGFear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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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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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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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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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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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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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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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.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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