Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
ERICA JONGThere is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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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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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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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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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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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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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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