Courage is the only Magic worth having.
ERICA JONGThe words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Solitude is un-American.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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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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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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