I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
ERICA JONGSilence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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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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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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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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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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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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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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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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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 exhortation.
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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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