You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
ERICA JONGI want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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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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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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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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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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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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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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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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