Why does life need evidence of life?
ERICA JONGI vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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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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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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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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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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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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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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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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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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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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