Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
ERICA JONGI want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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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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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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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Home is where your books are.
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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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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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