If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
ERICA JONGIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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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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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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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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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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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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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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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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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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