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 JONGYou can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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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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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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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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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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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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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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