Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
ERICA JONGFriends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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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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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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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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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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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 country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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