I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
ERICA JONGWomen are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Home is where your books are.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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