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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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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 soul is awakened through service.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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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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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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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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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