If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
ERICA JONGLife is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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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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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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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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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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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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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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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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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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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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.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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