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.
ERICA JONGNo 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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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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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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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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It’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.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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