Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
ERICA JONGPerhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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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 exhortation.
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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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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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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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