If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
ERICA JONGLife has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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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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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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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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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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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 hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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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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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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