Home is where your books are.
ERICA JONGFame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Before 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.
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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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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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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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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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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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