Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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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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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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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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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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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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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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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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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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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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