What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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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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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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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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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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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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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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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 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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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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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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