Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
ERICA JONGUnhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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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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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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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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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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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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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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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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