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.
ERICA JONGIs perception equivalent to existence?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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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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Home is where your books are.
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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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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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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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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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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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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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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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