I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
ERICA JONGI don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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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 trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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