Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
ERICA JONGThe truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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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 vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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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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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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