Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
ERICA JONGIn loving life you love what can’t survive.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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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Home is where your books are.
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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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