Erica Jong Quotes
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Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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A wet dream in the mind of New York.
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Nothing you write is ever lost to you. At some other level your mind is working on it.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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A baby's a full time job for three adults. Nobody tells you that when you're pregnant, or you'd probably jump off a bridge. Nobody tells you how all-consuming it is to be a mother-how reading goes out the window and thinking too.
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I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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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. Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved...Freedom is...not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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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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Having stopped expecting truth, we rarely get it.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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You can't be creative and still be a good girl.
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In loving life you love what can't survive.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.