Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
ERICA JONGEvery country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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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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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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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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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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