I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
ERICA JONGSilence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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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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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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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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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.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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