Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
ERICA JONGThe soul is awakened through service.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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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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Home is where your books are.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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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.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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