Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
ERICA JONGA new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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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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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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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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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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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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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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