A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
ERICA JONGDo 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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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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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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Solitude is un-American.
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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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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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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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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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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