Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
ERICA JONGIs a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Home is where your books are.
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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 exhortation.
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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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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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