Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
ERICA JONGIs perception equivalent to existence?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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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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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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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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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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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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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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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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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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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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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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