If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
ERICA JONGI see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Home is where your books are.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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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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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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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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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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