Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
ERICA JONGI have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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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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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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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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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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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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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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