Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
ERICA JONGAnd what if I don’t want forgiveness?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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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.
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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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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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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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Home is where your books are.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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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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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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