Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
ERICA JONGReally true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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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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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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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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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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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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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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