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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.

Erica Jong

As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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Act Age Crumb Disable Little Paranoid Power Utterly Women
Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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Anything Currency One Remember Show Use Wants Worth
Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Alone Creativity Demand Enough Less Nothing Talent You
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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Been Country Daughter Feminist Greatest Lover Mary People Person
People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
ERICA JONG

Always Attitude Change History Line People Proceed Social Straight Think
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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Being Experience Gone Human Spritualm Through
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
ERICA JONG

Book Burrow Experience Into Life Passive Profound Read
There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Dead Like Loneliness Marriage
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.
ERICA JONG

Back Come Daughter Different Freedom Insist Leash License Loose Mother Need Reject Share She
If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
ERICA JONG

Fear Need Ourselves Sufficient Unto Web
Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
ERICA JONG

Freedom Gain Loss Loving Much Someone Think
The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
ERICA JONG

Did Die Love Only Simple Truth Wish
If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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Anyone Draft First Imagine Important Line Listen never Privacy Shown World Write
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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Ever How Know Life Made Think Touch Understand
Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Bluntest Instrument Silence
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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Amazing Change Cycle Getting Greatest How Judgement Life Older See Thing Understand

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