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.
ERICA JONGLove is love, but marriage is an investment.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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I 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.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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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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The soul is awakened through service.
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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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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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