The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
ERICA JONGThere is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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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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Solitude is un-American.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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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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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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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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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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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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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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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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