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.
ERICA JONGThe only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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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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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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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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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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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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