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 JONGEvery country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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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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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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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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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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Home is where your books are.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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