A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
ERICA JONGNo one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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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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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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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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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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