Why does life need evidence of life?
ERICA JONGA book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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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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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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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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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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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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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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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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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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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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