To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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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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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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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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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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