You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Home is where your books are.
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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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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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