We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
ERICA JONGHow could one create life with someone who represented death?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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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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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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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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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
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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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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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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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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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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