It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
ERICA JONGIs perception equivalent to existence?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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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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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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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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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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