Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
ERICA JONGAmbivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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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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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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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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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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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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