I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
ERICA JONGWhat I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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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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I 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.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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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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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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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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