How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
ERICA JONGShakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
More Erica Jong Quotes
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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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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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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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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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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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