As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
ERICA JONGThere is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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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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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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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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