It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
ERICA JONGMemory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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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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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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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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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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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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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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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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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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