Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
ERICA JONGPhotographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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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.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Solitude is un-American.
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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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 by exhortation.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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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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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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