Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
ERICA JONGFame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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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.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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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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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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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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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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