Because I loved myself, I was loved.
ERICA JONGEveryone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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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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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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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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