I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
ERICA JONGMany people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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Home is where your books are.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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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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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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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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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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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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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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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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