Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
ERICA JONGI don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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If, 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.
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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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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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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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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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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 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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