It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
ERICA JONGI 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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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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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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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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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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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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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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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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