The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
ERICA JONGShakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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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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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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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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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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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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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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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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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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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