The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
ERICA JONGGossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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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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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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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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