No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
ERICA JONGDogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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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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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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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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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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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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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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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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