Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
ERICA JONGI want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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