Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
ERICA JONGIn a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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I 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.
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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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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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 myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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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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