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.
ERICA JONGIt’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Home is where your books are.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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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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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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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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Solitude is un-American.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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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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