Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
ERICA JONGIn loving life you love what can’t survive.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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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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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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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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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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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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