Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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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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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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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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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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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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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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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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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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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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