Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
ERICA JONGBecause I loved myself, I was loved.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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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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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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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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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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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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