Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
ERICA JONGArt is always an energy exchange.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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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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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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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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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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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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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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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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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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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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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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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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