Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
ERICA JONGI myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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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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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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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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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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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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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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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 am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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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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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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