I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
ERICA JONGNo 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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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.
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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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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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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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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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