Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
ERICA JONGDo 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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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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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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