It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
ERICA JONGA book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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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