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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.

Erica Jong

Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
ERICA JONG

Colour Neither Sex Soul
The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
ERICA JONG

End Life Person Sexual Sexuality
A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
ERICA JONG

Book Box Brimimg Incendiary Match Material Reader Strike
Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
ERICA JONG

Come Dog Live Love Loyalty
Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
ERICA JONG

Freedom Gain Loss Loving Much Someone Think
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
ERICA JONG

Also Being Ever Fool Found No One Wisdom
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.
ERICA JONG

Firm First Follow Go Home Live Long Minute Porno Reaction Screw Ten
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
ERICA JONG

Dumb Guy Hardly Lot See Smart Women
Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
ERICA JONG

Emotional Image Kind Shorthand
There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
ERICA JONG

Against Always Backlash Idea Progressive
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.
ERICA JONG

Bad Creative Equated Human Juice Long Side Will Women
A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
ERICA JONG

Affair Before Marriage Night Novel One Poem Short Someone Stand Story
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.
ERICA JONG

Been Country Daughter Feminist Greatest Lover Mary People Person
As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
ERICA JONG

Act Age Crumb Disable Little Paranoid Power Utterly Women
How could one create life with someone who represented death?
ERICA JONG

Create Death Life One Represented Someone
I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
ERICA JONG

Age Believe Close Consciousness Enjoy Every Fictional Identity Own People Read Time Transcend Whether

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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