No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
ERICA JONGThe 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Home is where your books are.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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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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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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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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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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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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