Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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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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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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