Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
ERICA JONGThere is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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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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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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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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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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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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I look forward and see myself look back.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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