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.
ERICA JONGLove is love, but marriage is an investment.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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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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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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