Keeping a journal implies hope.
ERICA JONGSouls have neither Sex nor Colour.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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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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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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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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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.
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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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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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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