Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
ERICA JONGThe soul is awakened through service.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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My 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.
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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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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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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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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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