Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
ERICA JONGNarrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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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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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Solitude is un-American.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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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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