Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
ERICA JONGWhat I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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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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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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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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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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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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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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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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