I look forward and see myself look back.
ERICA JONGCompose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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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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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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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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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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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 have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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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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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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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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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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