I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
ERICA JONGIt is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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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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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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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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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Solitude is un-American.
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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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