A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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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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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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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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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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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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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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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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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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