No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
ERICA JONGWe were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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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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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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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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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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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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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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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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