People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
ERICA JONGIt’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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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 think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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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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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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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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