Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
ERICA JONGAs long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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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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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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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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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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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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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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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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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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