And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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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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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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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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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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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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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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Home is where your books are.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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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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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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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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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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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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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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