It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
ERICA JONGNo one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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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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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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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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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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