They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
ERICA JONGYou see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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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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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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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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