It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
ERICA JONGLove is love, but marriage is an investment.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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Solitude is un-American.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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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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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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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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