We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
ERICA JONGI 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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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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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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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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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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