The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
ERICA JONGI am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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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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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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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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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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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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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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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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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