Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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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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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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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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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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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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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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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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