They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
ERICA JONGWhat I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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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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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 sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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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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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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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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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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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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