Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
ERICA JONGI 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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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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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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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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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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