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
ERICA JONGDriving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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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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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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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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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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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 vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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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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