Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
ERICA JONGHow wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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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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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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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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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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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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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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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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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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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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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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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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