I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
ERICA JONGHumor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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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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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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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 exhortation.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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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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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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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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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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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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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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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 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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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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