Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
ERICA JONGArt is always an energy exchange.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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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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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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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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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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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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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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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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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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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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