They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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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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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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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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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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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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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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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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