Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
ERICA JONGIf 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.
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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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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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 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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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Home is where your books are.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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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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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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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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I look forward and see myself look back.
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