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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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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It was easy enough to kill yourself in a fit of despair. It was easy enough to play the martyr. It was harder to do nothing. To endure your life. To wait.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.
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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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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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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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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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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
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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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Having stopped expecting truth, we rarely get it.
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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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In loving life you love what can't survive.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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A wet dream in the mind of New York.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.