How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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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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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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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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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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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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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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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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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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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Home is where your books are.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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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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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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