In loving life you love what can’t survive.
ERICA JONGPhotographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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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 exhortation.
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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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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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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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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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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