You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
ERICA JONGFriends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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