Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
ERICA JONGI don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The soul is awakened through service.
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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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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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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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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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