A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
ERICA JONGCompose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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