Because I loved myself, I was loved.
ERICA JONGWhat was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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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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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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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 by exhortation.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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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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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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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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The soul is awakened through service.
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