Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
ERICA JONGFriends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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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 have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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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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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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