Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
ERICA JONGReally true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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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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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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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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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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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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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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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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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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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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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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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.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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