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.
ERICA JONGHow could one create life with someone who represented death?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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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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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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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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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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