I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
ERICA JONGMotherhood cannot finally be delegated.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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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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