I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
ERICA JONGHome is where your books are.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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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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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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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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