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.
ERICA JONGDriving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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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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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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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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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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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 by exhortation.
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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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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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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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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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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
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