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 JONGAs women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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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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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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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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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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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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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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