Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
ERICA JONGWhat was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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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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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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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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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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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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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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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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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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