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.
ERICA JONGKeeping a journal implies hope.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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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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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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Solitude is un-American.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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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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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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