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.
ERICA JONGI see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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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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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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