Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
ERICA JONGYou are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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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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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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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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Art is always an energy exchange.
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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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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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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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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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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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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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Solitude is un-American.
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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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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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