Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
ERICA JONGI don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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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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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Solitude is un-American.
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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