Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
ERICA JONGLove is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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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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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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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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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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