A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
ERICA JONGThe sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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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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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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