My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
ERICA JONGThe only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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The soul is awakened through service.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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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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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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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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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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