Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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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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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
ERICA JONG