Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
ERICA JONGIt is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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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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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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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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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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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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