Conflict is the soul of literature.
ERICA JONGYou can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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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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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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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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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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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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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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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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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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