They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
ERICA JONGThe greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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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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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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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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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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