How could one create life with someone who represented death?
ERICA JONGDogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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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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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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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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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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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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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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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