Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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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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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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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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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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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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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 by exhortation.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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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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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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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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