Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Without the gods, how would I sing?' I asked. With your own voice,' he said.
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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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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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I didn't believe in systems. Everything human was imperfect and ultimately absurd. What did I believe in then? In humor. In laughing at systems, at people, at one's self. In laughing even at one's need to laugh all the time. In seeing life as contradictory, many-sided, various, funny, tragic, and with moments of outrageous beauty. In seeing life as a fruitcake, including delicious plums and bad peanuts, but meant to be devoured hungrily all the same because you couldn't feast on the plums without also sometimes being poisoned by the peanuts.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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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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You're not too fat; you're just in the wrong country.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Having stopped expecting truth, we rarely get it.
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In loving life you love what can't survive.
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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
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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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A wet dream in the mind of New York.