Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
ERICA JONGImages are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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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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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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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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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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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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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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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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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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