Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
ERICA JONGA book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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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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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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