To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
ERICA JONGLove is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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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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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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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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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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