Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
ERICA JONGUnhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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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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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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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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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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