Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
ERICA JONGThere’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Home is where your books are.
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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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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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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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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