Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
ERICA JONGArt is always an energy exchange.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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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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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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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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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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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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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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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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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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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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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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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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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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