Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
ERICA JONGImages are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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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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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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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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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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