I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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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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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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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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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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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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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