There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
ERICA JONGPhotographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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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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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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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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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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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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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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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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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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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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