The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
ERICA JONGWe were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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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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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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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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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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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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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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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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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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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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