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.
ERICA JONGJealousy is all the fun you think they had.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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