I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
ERICA JONGFear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Solitude is un-American.
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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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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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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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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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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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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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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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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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