Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
ERICA JONGLife is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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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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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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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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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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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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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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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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