A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
ERICA JONGIn 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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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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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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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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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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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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