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.
ERICA JONGOften I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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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.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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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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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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