Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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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 is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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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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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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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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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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