Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
ERICA JONGThe camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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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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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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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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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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