Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
ERICA JONGBecause I loved myself, I was loved.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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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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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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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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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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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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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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Why does life need evidence of life?
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