Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
ERICA JONGOften 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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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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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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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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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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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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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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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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