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.
ERICA JONGYou see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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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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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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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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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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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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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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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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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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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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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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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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 exhortation.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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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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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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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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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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The soul is awakened through service.
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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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