In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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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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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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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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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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