The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
ERICA JONGI want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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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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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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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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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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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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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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