Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
ERICA JONGBecause I loved myself, I was loved.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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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
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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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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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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