I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
ERICA JONGIf, 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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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.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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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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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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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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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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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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