The soul is awakened through service.
ERICA JONGBefore 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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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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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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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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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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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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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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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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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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I 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.
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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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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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