Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
ERICA JONGYoung people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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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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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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