Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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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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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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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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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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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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