In loving life you love what can’t survive.
ERICA JONGTo name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Solitude is un-American.
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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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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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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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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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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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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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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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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