Keeping a journal implies hope.
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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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Solitude is un-American.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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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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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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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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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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