The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
ERICA JONGAs long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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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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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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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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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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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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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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