There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
ERICA JONGFreedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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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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Home is where your books are.
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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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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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