The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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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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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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The 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.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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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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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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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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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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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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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
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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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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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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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Home is where your books are.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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