I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
ERICA JONGTake your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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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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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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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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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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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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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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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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