Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
ERICA JONG
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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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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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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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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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