How could one create life with someone who represented death?
ERICA JONGMy advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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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The soul is awakened through service.
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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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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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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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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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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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