Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
ERICA JONGA book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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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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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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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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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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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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