It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
ERICA JONGPeople are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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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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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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