Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
ERICA JONGThe sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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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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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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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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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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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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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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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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Home is where your books are.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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