A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
ERICA JONGThere’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Home is where your books are.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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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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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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