And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
ERICA JONGA new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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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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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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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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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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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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