A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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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Home is where your books are.
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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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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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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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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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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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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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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Solitude is un-American.
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