Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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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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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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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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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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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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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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