Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
ERICA JONGDo all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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Art is always an energy exchange.
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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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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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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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