Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
ERICA JONGYou 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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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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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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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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Home is where your books are.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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 exhortation.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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