Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
ERICA JONGI don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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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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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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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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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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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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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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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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