I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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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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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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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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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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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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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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Solitude is un-American.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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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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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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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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