Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
ERICA JONGAlways do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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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 by exhortation.
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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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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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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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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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Home is where your books are.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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