If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
ERICA JONGI have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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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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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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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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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