Why does life need evidence of life?
ERICA JONGIn a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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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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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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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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Solitude is un-American.
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If, 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.
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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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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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