Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
ERICA JONGSomeday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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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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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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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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No 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.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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