They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
ERICA JONGWhat I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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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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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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