Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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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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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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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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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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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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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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