Courage is the only Magic worth having.
ERICA JONGThe future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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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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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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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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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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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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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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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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