I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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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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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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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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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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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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Home is where your books are.
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