I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
ERICA JONGAdvice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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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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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Solitude is un-American.
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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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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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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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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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