We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
ERICA JONGThey keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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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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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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Why does life need evidence of life?
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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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