The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
ERICA JONGAnd the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Solitude is un-American.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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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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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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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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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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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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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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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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