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
ERICA JONGDogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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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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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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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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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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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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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Home is where your books are.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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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Solitude is un-American.
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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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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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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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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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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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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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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