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
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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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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 by exhortation.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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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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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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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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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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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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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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