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 JONGFame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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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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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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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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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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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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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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