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.
ERICA JONGIf we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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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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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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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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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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