The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
ERICA JONGBetrayal betrays the betrayer.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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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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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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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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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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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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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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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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