Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
ERICA JONGWe were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Solitude is un-American.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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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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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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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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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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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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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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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 by exhortation.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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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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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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