Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
ERICA JONGI have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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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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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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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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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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 believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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