Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
ERICA JONGSilence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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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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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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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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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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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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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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The soul is awakened through service.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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