Why does life need evidence of life?
ERICA JONGA poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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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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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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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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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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