You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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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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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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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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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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 are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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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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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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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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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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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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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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