Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
ERICA JONGA new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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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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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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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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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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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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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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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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