I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
ERICA JONGIf, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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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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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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