Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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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The soul is awakened through service.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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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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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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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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