How could one create life with someone who represented death?
ERICA JONGUnhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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