Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
ERICA JONGIs a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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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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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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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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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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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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