Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
ERICA JONGThere are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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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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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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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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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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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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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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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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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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The soul is awakened through service.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Solitude is un-American.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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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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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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