If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
ERICA JONGLoving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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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.
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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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