Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
ERICA JONGI stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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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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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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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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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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