Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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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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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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