Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
ERICA JONGDon’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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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.
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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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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Home is where your books are.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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