Is perception equivalent to existence?
ERICA JONGUnhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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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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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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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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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.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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