Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
ERICA JONGMotherhood cannot finally be delegated.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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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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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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Solitude is un-American.
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