There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
ERICA JONGFame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Home is where your books are.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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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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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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