Solitude is un-American.
ERICA JONGThe dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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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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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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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.
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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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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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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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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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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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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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