Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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 myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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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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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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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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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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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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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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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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Art is always an energy exchange.
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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