I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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 you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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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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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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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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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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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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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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