The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
ERICA JONGThey keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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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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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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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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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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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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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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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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