I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
ERICA JONGHumor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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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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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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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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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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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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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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