You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
ERICA JONGI want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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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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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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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.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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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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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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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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