I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
ERICA JONGIt is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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