If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
ERICA JONGThe future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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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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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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Home is where your books are.
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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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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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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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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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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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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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