We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
ERICA JONGLove is love, but marriage is an investment.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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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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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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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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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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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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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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