Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
ERICA JONGUnhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The soul is awakened through service.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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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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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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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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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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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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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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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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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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