You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
ERICA JONGDivorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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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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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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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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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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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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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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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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