What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
ERICA JONGThere is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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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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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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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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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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Home is where your books are.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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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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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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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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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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