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 are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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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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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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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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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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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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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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