Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
ERICA JONGReally true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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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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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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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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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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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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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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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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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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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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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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