Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
ERICA JONGI stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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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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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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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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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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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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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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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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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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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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