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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I look forward and see myself look back.
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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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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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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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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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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Home is where your books are.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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