Why does life need evidence of life?
ERICA JONGEvery time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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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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Solitude is un-American.
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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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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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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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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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