Courage is the only Magic worth having.
ERICA JONGThough my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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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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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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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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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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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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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.
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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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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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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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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