A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
ERICA JONGFriends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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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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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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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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 trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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