Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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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 by exhortation.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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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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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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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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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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