I look forward and see myself look back.
ERICA JONGThough my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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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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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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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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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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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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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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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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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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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 am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Home is where your books are.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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