I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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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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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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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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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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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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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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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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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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