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Erica Jong Quotes
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![But the fact is, she [the muse] won't be summoned. She alights when it damn well pleases her. She falls in love with one artist, then deserts him for another. She's a real bitch! Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/43/42223/42223.webp "But the fact is, she [the muse] won't be summoned. She alights when it damn well pleases her. She falls in love with one artist, then deserts him for another. She's a real bitch! Picture Quote #1")
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I can live without it all - love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their peacock strutting, their silly sexual baggage, their wet tongues in my ear (Erica Jong Quotes)
Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads (Erica Jong Quotes)
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 (Erica Jong Quotes)
Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down - revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper (Erica Jong Quotes)
My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live (Erica Jong Quotes)
I have accepted fear as part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back (Erica Jong Quotes)
Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself (Erica Jong Quotes)
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 (Erica Jong Quotes)
Someday every woman will have orgasms - like every family has color TV - and we can all get on with the business of life (Erica Jong Quotes)
Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture... Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man (Erica Jong Quotes)
All natural disasters are comforting because they reaffirm our impotence, in which, otherwise, we might stop believing. At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness (Erica Jong Quotes)
Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything (Erica Jong Quotes)
But the fact is, she [the muse] won't be summoned. She alights when it damn well pleases her. She falls in love with one artist, then deserts him for another. She's a real bitch! (Erica Jong Quotes)
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads (Erica Jong Quotes)
It is heresy in America to embrace any way of life except as half of a couple. Solitude is unAmerican (Erica Jong Quotes)
Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the time when they need them. Cosmic forces guide such passings along (Erica Jong Quotes)
There's no shame in loving life above death. Otherwise I would be dead. What use would that be to the gods, who will not die themselves? (Erica Jong Quotes)
I loved Aphrodite from the first and steeped myself in her legends. My mother told me that in ancient times her rituals were bloody and cruel, but I only half believed it (Erica Jong Quotes)
Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly (Erica Jong Quotes)
You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare (Erica Jong Quotes)
Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world (Erica Jong Quotes)
Actor Robin Williams Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared (Erica Jong Quotes)
The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy (Erica Jong Quotes)
I've not ceased being fearful, I've gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says: turn back, turn back, you'll die if you go too far (Erica Jong Quotes)
God is not dead but missing in action, and we are destined to wander again for more millennia than there are undiscovered stars (Erica Jong Quotes)
The earth is God's book but in our blindness, we have obliterated letters so we may say God has abandoned us. It is we who are illiterate (Erica Jong Quotes)
But I am wise if not yet quite old, wanting the poem more than the lover, wanting words more than the sticky dew men secrete in their private places (Erica Jong Quotes)
These bits speak history's tattered tale. How we cling to scraps, shards, sea glass - because we cannot stay (Erica Jong Quotes)
Why should a bad marriage have been so much more compelling than no marriage? Why had I clung to my misery so? Why did I believe it was all I had? (Erica Jong Quotes)
The truth is: nobody bothers to kill poets in America. It's enough to buy them in universities. Undead (Erica Jong Quotes)