Why does life need evidence of life?
ERICA JONGDriving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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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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Solitude is un-American.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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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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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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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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