Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
ERICA JONGEvery time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
More Erica Jong Quotes
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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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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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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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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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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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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