It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
ERICA JONGCreativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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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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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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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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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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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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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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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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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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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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