Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
ERICA JONGIf 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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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 by exhortation.
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Home is where your books are.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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