Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
ERICA JONGSouls have neither Sex nor Colour.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The soul is awakened through service.
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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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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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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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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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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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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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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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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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