Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
ERICA JONGAlways do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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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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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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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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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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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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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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