Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
ERICA JONGIf we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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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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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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I 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.
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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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