You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
ERICA JONGWhy does life need evidence of life?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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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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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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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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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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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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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