Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
ERICA JONGSolitude is un-American.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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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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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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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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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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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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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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