Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
ERICA JONGI 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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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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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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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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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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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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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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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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