Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
ERICA JONGThere is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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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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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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