Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
ERICA JONGYou 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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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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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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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 by exhortation.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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