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.
ERICA JONGA book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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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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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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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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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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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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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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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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