I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
ERICA JONGLoving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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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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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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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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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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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Solitude is un-American.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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The 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.
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