Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
ERICA JONGThere’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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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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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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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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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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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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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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