It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
ERICA JONGCompose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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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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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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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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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 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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Art is always an energy exchange.
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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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