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.
ERICA JONGOur empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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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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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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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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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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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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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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