Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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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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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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