Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
ERICA JONGLife has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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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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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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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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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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