Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
ERICA JONGIs a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Why does life need evidence of life?
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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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Solitude is un-American.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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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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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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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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Home is where your books are.
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