A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
ERICA JONGA new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
ERICA JONGI don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
ERICA JONGI 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.
ERICA JONGThe sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
ERICA JONGBetrayal betrays the betrayer.
ERICA JONGI myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
ERICA JONGI don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
ERICA JONGI stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
ERICA JONGI want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
ERICA JONGI look forward and see myself look back.
ERICA JONGAs women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
ERICA JONGWhy does life need evidence of life?
ERICA JONGMotherhood cannot finally be delegated.
ERICA JONGHome is where your books are.
ERICA JONGA book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
ERICA JONGPeople are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
ERICA JONG