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.
ERICA JONGI have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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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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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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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