Is perception equivalent to existence?
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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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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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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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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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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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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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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