Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
ERICA JONGYou can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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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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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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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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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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