Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
ERICA JONGHumor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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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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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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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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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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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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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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