Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Home is where your books are.
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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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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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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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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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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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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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