Keeping a journal implies hope.
ERICA JONGThe truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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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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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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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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