Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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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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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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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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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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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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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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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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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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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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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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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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