I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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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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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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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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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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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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.
ERICA JONG