Courage is the only Magic worth having.
ERICA JONGDivorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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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.
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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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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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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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