Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
ERICA JONGIf, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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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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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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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 parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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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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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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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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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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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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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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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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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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