There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
ERICA JONGEvery country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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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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The soul is awakened through service.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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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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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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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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