Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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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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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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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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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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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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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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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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