In loving life you love what can’t survive.
ERICA JONGMemory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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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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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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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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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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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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