They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
ERICA JONGIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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Solitude is un-American.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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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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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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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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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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