The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
ERICA JONGIn 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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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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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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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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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 takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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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