One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

About Erica Jong

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Erica Jong (née Mann; born March 26, 1942) is an American novelist, satirist, and poet known particularly for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying. The book became famously controversial for its attitudes towards female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism, selling over 37 million copies worldwide.

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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

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.… 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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Eating is never so simple as hunger.

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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes, are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair. Despair is for those who expect to live forever. I no longer do.

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More quotations tagged with “love”

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

—Dorothy Parker

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

—Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

—David Viscott

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

—Blaise Pascal

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone—but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

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