It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
ERICA JONGFlesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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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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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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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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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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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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