Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
ERICA JONGIf we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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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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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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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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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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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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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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