I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
ERICA JONGThe camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
More Erica Jong Quotes
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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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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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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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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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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