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.
ERICA JONGKeeping a journal implies hope.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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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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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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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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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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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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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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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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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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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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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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The soul is awakened through service.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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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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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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