My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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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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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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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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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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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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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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