Why does life need evidence of life?
ERICA JONGSouls have neither Sex nor Colour.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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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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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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