Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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 am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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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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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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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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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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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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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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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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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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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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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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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 do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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