Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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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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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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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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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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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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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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