Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
ERICA JONGI 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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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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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Solitude is un-American.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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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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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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