Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
ERICA JONGAnger is really disappointed hope.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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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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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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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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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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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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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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