Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
ERICA JONG
Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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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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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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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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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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