As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
ERICA JONGThe truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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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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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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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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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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