The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
ERICA JONGAs long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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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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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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I 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.
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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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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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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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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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