My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
ERICA JONGPhotographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Solitude is un-American.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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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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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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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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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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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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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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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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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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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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