Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
ERICA JONGDo you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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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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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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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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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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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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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.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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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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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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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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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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