A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
ERICA JONGThe future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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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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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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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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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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