Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
ERICA JONGA poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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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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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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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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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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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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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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