Why does life need evidence of life?
ERICA JONGThe best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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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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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Solitude is un-American.
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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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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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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 have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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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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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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