If 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.
ERICA JONGIt’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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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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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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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Home is where your books are.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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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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