If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
ERICA JONGA poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Solitude is un-American.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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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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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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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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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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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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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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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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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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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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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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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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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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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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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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