Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
ERICA JONGGossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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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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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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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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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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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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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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