Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
ERICA JONGI don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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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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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Freedom 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.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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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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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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