Why does life need evidence of life?
ERICA JONGGossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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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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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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Solitude is un-American.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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