I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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 loving life you love what can’t survive.
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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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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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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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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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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.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Solitude is un-American.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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