Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
ERICA JONGPerhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Home is where your books are.
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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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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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