The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
ERICA JONGThe words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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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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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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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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