Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
ERICA JONGYou can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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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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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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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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The 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.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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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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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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