Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
ERICA JONGIs a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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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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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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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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Solitude is un-American.
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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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Art is always an energy exchange.
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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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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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