I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
ERICA JONGIf, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Home is where your books are.
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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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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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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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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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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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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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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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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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