I 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.
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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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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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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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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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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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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Solitude is un-American.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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How 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.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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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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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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