Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
ERICA JONGReally true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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 exhortation.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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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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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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Art is always an energy exchange.
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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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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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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