A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
ERICA JONGWhat I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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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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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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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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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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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