What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
ERICA JONGPerhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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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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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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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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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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