A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
ERICA JONGTake your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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 future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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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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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.
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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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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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