If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
ERICA JONGIt is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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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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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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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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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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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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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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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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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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