If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Home is where your books are.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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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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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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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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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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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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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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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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