In loving life you love what can’t survive.
ERICA JONGYou can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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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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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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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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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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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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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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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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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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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