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.
ERICA JONGCreativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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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 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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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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