Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
ERICA JONGThe soul is awakened through service.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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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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I look forward and see myself look back.
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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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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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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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