Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
ERICA JONGCompose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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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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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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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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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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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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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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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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