Solitude is un-American.
ERICA JONGThe truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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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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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Many 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.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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In 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.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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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 exhortation.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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