Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
ERICA JONGThe best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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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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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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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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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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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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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 have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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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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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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