Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
ERICA JONGFlesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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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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Art is always an energy exchange.
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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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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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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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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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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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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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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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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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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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