Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
ERICA JONGA new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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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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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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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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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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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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