I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
ERICA JONGYoung people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Solitude is un-American.
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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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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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