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.
ERICA JONGDo all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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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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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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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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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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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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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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