A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
ERICA JONGDo all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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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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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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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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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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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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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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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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