Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
ERICA JONGSouls have neither Sex nor Colour.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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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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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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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Solitude is un-American.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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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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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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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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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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