How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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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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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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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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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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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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