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ERICA JONGThere is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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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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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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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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Solitude is un-American.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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