In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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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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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I look forward and see myself look back.
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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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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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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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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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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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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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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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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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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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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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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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