Home is where your books are.
ERICA JONGI myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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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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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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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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