I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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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Why does life need evidence of life?
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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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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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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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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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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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