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.
ERICA JONGConflict is the soul of literature.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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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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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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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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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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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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