As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
ERICA JONGSomeday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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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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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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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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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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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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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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