Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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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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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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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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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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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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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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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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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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