A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
ERICA JONGConflict is the soul of literature.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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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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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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Home is where your books are.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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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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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.
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