The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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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Women 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.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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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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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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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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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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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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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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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Solitude is un-American.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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