A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
ERICA JONGI look forward and see myself look back.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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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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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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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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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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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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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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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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