The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
ERICA JONGDogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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 camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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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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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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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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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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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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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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