Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
ERICA JONGI do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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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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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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