A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
ERICA JONGBetrayal betrays the betrayer.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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