Because I loved myself, I was loved.
ERICA JONGI am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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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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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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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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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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I look forward and see myself look back.
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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 camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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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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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.
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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