Home is where your books are.
ERICA JONGFriends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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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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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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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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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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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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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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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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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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