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 JONGEvery time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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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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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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 exhortation.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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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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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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Solitude is un-American.
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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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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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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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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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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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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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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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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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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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