Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
ERICA JONGI don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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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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 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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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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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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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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