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.
ERICA JONGCompose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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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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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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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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Solitude is un-American.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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