The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
ERICA JONGAllow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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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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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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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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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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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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