It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
ERICA JONGBefore things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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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 by exhortation.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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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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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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Art is always an energy exchange.
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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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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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