My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
ERICA JONGUnhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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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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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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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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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Home is where your books are.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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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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