A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
ERICA JONGThe truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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The soul is awakened through service.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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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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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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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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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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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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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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