I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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Home is where your books are.
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