Is perception equivalent to existence?
ERICA JONGThe sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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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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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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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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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.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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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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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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