Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
ERICA JONGThe words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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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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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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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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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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