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 JONGThere are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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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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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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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 no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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Home is where your books are.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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