A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
ERICA JONGDon’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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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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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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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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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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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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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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