Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
ERICA JONGLove is love, but marriage is an investment.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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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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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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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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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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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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It’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.
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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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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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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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