Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
ERICA JONGWhy does life need evidence of life?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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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 words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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