Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
ERICA JONGThe camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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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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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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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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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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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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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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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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