Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
ERICA JONGConflict is the soul of literature.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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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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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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