Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
ERICA JONGLife has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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If 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.
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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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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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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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Home is where your books are.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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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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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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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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