The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
ERICA JONGPerhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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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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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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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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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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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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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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