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.
ERICA JONGThere is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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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.
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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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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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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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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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