Keeping a journal implies hope.
ERICA JONGWhy does life need evidence of life?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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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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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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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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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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