Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
ERICA JONGThough my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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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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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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