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.
ERICA JONGA new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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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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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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