The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
ERICA JONGI 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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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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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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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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