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 JONGLoving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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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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Home is where your books are.
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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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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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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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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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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