Keeping a journal implies hope.
ERICA JONGThe sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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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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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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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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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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