Art is always an energy exchange.
ERICA JONGI don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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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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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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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 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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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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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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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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