I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
ERICA JONGIt 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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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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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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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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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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