Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
ERICA JONGWe are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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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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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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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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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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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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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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No 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.
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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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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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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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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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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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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