Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
ERICA JONGThe words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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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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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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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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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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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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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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