Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
ERICA JONGEvery country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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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Art is always an energy exchange.
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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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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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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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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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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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