If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
ERICA JONGThere is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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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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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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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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My 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
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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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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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Home is where your books are.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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