Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
ERICA JONGImages are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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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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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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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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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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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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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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