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 JONGMy mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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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Art is always an energy exchange.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Solitude is un-American.
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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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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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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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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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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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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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