Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
ERICA JONGIf we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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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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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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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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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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