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.
ERICA JONGIt’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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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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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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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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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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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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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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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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