Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
ERICA JONGAnger is really disappointed hope.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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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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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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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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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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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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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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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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