Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
ERICA JONG
We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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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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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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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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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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Home is where your books are.
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