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ERICA JONGFame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Solitude is un-American.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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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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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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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 exhortation.
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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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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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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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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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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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