It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
ERICA JONGMemory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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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 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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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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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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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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