Is perception equivalent to existence?
ERICA JONGDon’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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Home is where your books are.
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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