It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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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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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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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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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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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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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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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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