Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
ERICA JONGLove is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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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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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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