Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
ERICA JONGI am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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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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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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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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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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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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