If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
ERICA JONGIf you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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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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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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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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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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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Home is where your books are.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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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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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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