Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
ERICA JONGAs women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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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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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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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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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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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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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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