There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
ERICA JONGYou see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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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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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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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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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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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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