Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
ERICA JONGSouls have neither Sex nor Colour.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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