Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
ERICA JONGThe best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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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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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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