I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
ERICA JONGKeeping a journal implies hope.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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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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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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I 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.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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