Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
ERICA JONGPhotographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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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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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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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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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 camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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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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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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