Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
ERICA JONGThough my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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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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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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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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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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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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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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