What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
ERICA JONGThere is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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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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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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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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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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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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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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