In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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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 trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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