People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
ERICA JONGKeeping a journal implies hope.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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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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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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