Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
ERICA JONGWhat was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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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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The soul is awakened through service.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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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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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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 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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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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