Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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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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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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Home is where your books are.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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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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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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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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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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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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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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