If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
ERICA JONGHow 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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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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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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
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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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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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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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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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