Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
ERICA JONGThe dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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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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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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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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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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