My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
ERICA JONGI 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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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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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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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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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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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The soul is awakened through service.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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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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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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