No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
ERICA JONGFear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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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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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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Home is where your books are.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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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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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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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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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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