Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
ERICA JONGIf 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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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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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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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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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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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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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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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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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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