Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
ERICA JONGLife is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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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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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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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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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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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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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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