Solitude is un-American.
ERICA JONGNarrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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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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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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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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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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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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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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