The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
ERICA JONGHow could one create life with someone who represented death?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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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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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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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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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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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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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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