The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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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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Why does life need evidence of life?
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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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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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