If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
ERICA JONGThere is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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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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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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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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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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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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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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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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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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Home is where your books are.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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