Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
ERICA JONGAnd what if I don’t want forgiveness?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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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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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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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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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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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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