Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
ERICA JONGUnhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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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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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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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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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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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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