Keeping a journal implies hope.
ERICA JONGIs perception equivalent to existence?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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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.
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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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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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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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