Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
ERICA JONGThe soul is awakened through service.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Why does life need evidence of life?
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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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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