Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
ERICA JONGEvery time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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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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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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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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The soul is awakened through service.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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