Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
ERICA JONGI don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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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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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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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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Solitude is un-American.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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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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Home is where your books are.
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